59993 - UI supporting table height via CSS

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77705

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

This is a bug for the UI to allow users set a table height (via CSS).  This bug
should cover both the insert dialog and the table properties dialog's table tab.

Comment 1

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

Please note that table height set with CSS doesn't mean the same thing as table 
height set with HTML (though height set with HTML doesn't really mean 
*anything). When you set table height in percentages with HTML, Mozilla 
calculated the height relative to the height of the window (canvas/viewport 
really), but CSS height is relative to the table's containing box.

Comment 2

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

It is true that "height set with HTML doesn't really mean anything" : the HTML4
element TABLE does *not* have a HEIGHT attribute...
Its meaning is only determined by common browsers' practice.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#edef-TABLE

Comment 3

[Charles Manske]

Why do we have a request for just table height CSS? We will be working on UI for
general CSS attribute editing -- will that cover this issue?

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

Table height is a separate bug because it may or may not be supported with CSS1
support in Composer in the next major revision.  Also, it's clearer with the
dependencies to have this bug pulled out specifically.  

Comment 5

[Charles Manske]

Daniel is in charge of CSS issues.

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

moving to future until css support task is started

Comment 7

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

This bug is fully covered by the CSSization of Composer; closing as dup of
bug 77705. (and it works just fine in my own build :-) )
The UI for table height is only visible when the css pref is checked. It means
that we keep generating correct html table markup.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77705 ***

Comment 8

[sujay]

marking verified.